Anne Hathaway Makes Fun of Hosting Oscars With James Franco

They tried their greatest. Anne Hathaway opened up about cohosting the 83rd Academy Awards with James Franco — and sure, she’s conscious it didn’t go nicely.

The actress, 38, performed a recreation on the Monday, October 25, episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen the place she was proven a collection of pictures from all through her profession. After presenting the photographs, Andy Cohen requested Hathaway to narrate the reminiscence to at least one phrase.

Cohen, 54, lower to a photograph of Hathaway and Franco, 44, from the Oscars ceremony in 2011. The Princess Diaries star quickly responded, “[We] sucked,” which precipitated herself, Cohen, visitor Victoria Beckham and your complete viewers to burst out laughing.

This was not the primary time the Devil Wears Prada actress has poked enjoyable at herself for the internet hosting gig. Before the 91st Academy Awards in 2019, Hathaway shared a throwback photograph through social media of her and the Disaster Artist star from eight years prior.

“No matter what happens with today’s show, just remember, it’s already been worse,” she wrote on the time. “Happy Oscars!”

The 2011 Oscars had been deemed as a flop as a result of uncomfortable chemistry between Franco and Hathaway. David Wild, one of the writers for the 2011 award present, opened up concerning the awkwardness between Hathaway and Franco a decade after the ceremony.

“It was like the world’s most uncomfortable blind date between the cool rocker stoner kid and the adorable theater camp cheerleader,” Wild informed The Ringer in April 2021. “Again, this is a memory, but [Anne] was like, ‘Maybe you should try that,’ and he was like, ‘Don’t tell me how to be funny.’”

Meanwhile, writer-director Jordan Rubin additionally shared that the Oceans Eight actress had a special strategy to preparing for the present than the Pineapple Express actor did.

“Anne made herself readily available. I went to her house and worked on the script and she was on a bunch of conference calls and responding to emails and was a great collaborator,” he stated, noting that he oversaw the manufacturing.

When the awards befell, Franco was balancing his performing profession and his varied instructional pursuits. The actor took doctoral lessons at Yale University, earned a grasp’s diploma at New York University and taught at Columbia College Hollywood in Los Angeles.

“He always seemed to be on a flight, and it was very hard for me to get a hold of him,” Rubin revealed. “That was a red flag.”

According to the director, it appeared as if Franco needed to play it as a buddy-cop film with two reverse characters and made a acutely aware effort to counter Hathaway’s character.

In 2016, Franco responded to the criticism about his efficiency on the awards present throughout an interview with Vulture. “I’ve never aspired to be the Oscars host. I don’t care really,” the Freaks and Geeks actor shared. “I’m going to do what they ask me to and do it as well as I can, but I don’t need this to be the best Oscars ever. I’m not getting anything out of that. In the best-case scenario, even if I killed it, it’s not going to help my career, because that’s not what it’s based on. It was an experiment.”